Donkeys are amazing, treat them nicely

The article on donkeys published in the Sunday Standard of May 21 was excellent. However, the author did not highlight the suffering of donkeys especially in the Naivasha slaughterhouse.

This is a very critical subject for the Kenya Society for the Protection and Care of Animals (KSPCA). When our team visited the slaughterhouse recently, the lairage was overcrowded with about 1,000 donkeys.

There was very little food, no water and some of the dead donkeys were very young. There were also maggots eating away at some of the carcasses. Just because there is good business in the donkey skin trade does not justify what amounts to this cruelty.

Donkeys are amazing creatures.They should be treated with a lot of care. Jean Gilchrist, Director of Animal Welfare KSPCA.